Mohamed Salah Ahmed

Somalia

MPP, 2023
Mansfield College, Kofi Annan Scholarship
Funding: Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann

Mohamed Salah Ahmed is a public policy practitioner with a BA in Community Development and an MA in Political Science and Public Administration. Prior to joining the Office of National Security, Mohamed worked in the humanitarian space in Somalia. Currently, at the presidency he serves as the chief person for the sanctions regime, leading, coordinating, framing and implementing nationwide policies on WAM and the sanctions regime, ranging from efforts to lift the UNSC arms embargo on Somalia to disrupting the smuggling of illicit weapons. Under his realm, he succeeded in operationalising the National WAM strategy through a result-based action plan with a clear baseline and targets, which was aimed at restricting the acquisition of weapons for non-state actors.

Upon completing the MPP, he intends to continue contributing to the improvement of government institutions through effective and practical policy prescriptions for some of the pressing issues Somalia is facing.